SuperDerivatives has launched an impressive new product for the cash and derivatives market data space. A browser and cloud-based system delivers market data, news, chat, search and analysis to any browser, desktop or mobile. A significant development for anyone looking for a fresh and cost-effective solution for market data, which for years has been locked up by major providers.

In my previous article I wrote about the amazing new features of Visual Studio 2012/Microsoft Test Manager 2012 and mentioned that the guys from Microsoft were going to change the world of QA by making an automation platform that can be used by non-developers (exploratory testing automation, running automated scripts from any place inside manual test run, etc.)

Following a CV-related inquiry, the computer vision team at Dataart created a custom solution for detecting, capturing, and tracking visual markers from a real time video stream. What is usually called Augmented Reality and typically associated with a 3rd party ‘black box’ which does all the complicated spatial job, is now modeled and implemented from scratch by DataArt, with all the 3D mathematics created by researches and ported and implemented by developers.

A few months ago Microsoft Health Vault team posted a call for volunteer to help NOKR integrate their system with Health Vault and DataArt responded to the call. And so, our healthcare team’s hard work resulted in a successful delivery of the solution last week. Check out MSDN blog post about that here.

To continue the Visualization topic, which recently started, I’d like to share a small overview of useful visualization tools. Frankly speaking there are a huge amount of different tools. Some tools are more scientific, some are specialized for business purposes, some are expensive and the others are free. In this overview I’m going to tell you about the tools for users who want to save time and money by using free tools with simple and clear UIs.